No KDE 4 release this year? / What needs to be done (questioning Linux and the Desktop)
January 21, 2006
The latest news from the blog of one of the KDE 4 developers Aaron J Seigo:
with kde4 a year or so away, 3.5 will likely
continue to be the default kde desktop shipped on supported operating systems
for at least the next 12-18 months.
(Source: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/)
Some days ago he wrote it would more to be fall but I would expect only the first more or less full beta releases by this time. I thing KDE 4 has to work hard with the Appeal project and powers like Windows Vista, Mac OS X to come up with the same new Desktop for the Linux system. New ideas are on the table but I think the developers have to question the support of the Linux community for a Desktop Linux before they can really start working… what about the first united Linux Control Center??? Driver control under KDE? Easier management of KDE software? KDE-own package manager independent from the system? KDE together with Linux or on top of Linux? So many things to question…
